CompuServe Messages

I disagree – I think a language ought to check types when you're messing with pointers – I think it ought to handle casting and conversions of numeric arguments w/o squealing at you, and in a completely predictible (defined, standardized, etc) way. However, if I'm pointing at an 8-bit entity, the compiler does things to the pointer (hopefully) for me like increment, decrement, etc… in the size of the entity; therefore, I wanna know if I point at a 24 bit entity with that pointer; – so…. I think that is a reasonable canidate for casting. Numeric types, no way. BTW – I can think of plenty that's wrong with 'c'… limitations I would rather not have, features I'd like to see removed; but I still think it's by _far_ the best language around that I've messed with at all, barring assembler; Of course, if I had unlimited time, I'd _always_ write in assembler – that, and a totally stable environment, so's I wouldn't be caught flatfooted by revs and so on. but, since I need to get things done NOW, I use 'c' – the next best thing…. another thing 'c' buys you, on this machine, that I _really_ like, is a huge common ground with other amiga people who are writing complex system-level things… M2 and all the rest are just too limited for me to take a serious interest in for programming serious things. And I don't have time or energy to play with multiple languages… however wonderful they may be, which btw M2 isn't. hehehehe. On another subject… I noticed a lot of flack about a compiler's having no way to bounds check an array you allocate at run time – gee….. <musing> doesn't seem all THAT hard… another subject for casting, or an equivalent operation. (If you WANT bound checking, of course – Yech!) –Ben–